US Congressman. A member of the Republican party, he served in the US House of Representatives from Washington State's 3rd district from 1947 until his death. His family moved from Michigan to Aberdeen, Washington when he was a young boy. Following high school, he received his education from Stanford University in Stanford, California from 1913 to 1914 and at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington from 1914 until 1915. During World War I he served as a corporal in the US Army with the 39th Field Artillery, 13th Division. He worked as a journalist with the Aberdeen Daily World from 1913 until 1934 and the as owner and publisher of the Hoquiam Daily Washingtonian from 1934 until 1950. In 1947 he was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fred B. Norman and was re-elected to six successive terms. He died suddenly of cardiac arrest on the House of Representatives floor at the age of 68. (bio by: William Bjornstad)